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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?
(a) Talk / far
(b) Argue / dark
(c) Purr / crystalline
(d) Shimmer / blinding

2. How does the nursery create scenes?
(a) It creates it telepathically based on what the children are thinking
(b) The scenes are based on books that the children read
(c) They are interactive television programs
(d) They are images taken with a camera and then uploaded onto the screens

3. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Classical music
(b) Songbirds
(c) Their children calling them
(d) A scream

4. What do George and Lydia notice about the screams?
(a) They sound really close
(b) They sound familiar
(c) They sound really far away
(d) They don’t sound human

5. What does George try to conjure to get rid of the veldt?
(a) The prairie grasses of the Great Plains
(b) Aladdin and his lamp
(c) Rima and the jungle
(d) His favorite childhood fishing spot

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initially believes that the nursery walls are too real?

2. What is the husband’s name?

3. What genre is The Veldt?

4. What trembles as if “something had jumped against it”?

5. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

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